Reshoring News

Improvements in technology combined with US-based corporations rising need for speed are increasingly making reshoring of electronic assemblies a reality. Every day at TLC Electronics wires are being cut, stripped and crimped at the volume of over 5,000 …
Randstad: Many US Companies ‘Reshoring” IT Support  GoodCall News

Many companies are reshoring their IT support jobs, according to Randstad Technologies. Some of the advantages of offshoring have disappeared.

In 2013, The Hackett Group predicted that 950,000 IT jobs would be moved offshore by 2017. But times have changed. Recent research from Randstad Technologies indicates that U.S. companies are reshoring IT support. There are three primary factors …
Ferrie said competition from overseas rivals operating outsourced testing facilities was a challenge, “but we are seeing a trend where companies are ‘reshoring’ work and looking at different delivery models – we have quite a lot of opportunities in …
This makes countries like China not as much of a bargain as they once were. In fact, according to the Reshoring Initiative, 60% of the investment that brought manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. between 2010 and 2016 was from China, Recode reported.
The plan is to develop manufacturing industries there, including factories from China. It may be one of North America’s first significant “reshoring” efforts – a reversal of the trend of companies outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China …

British cars are now even more British

by admin on June 18, 2017

It could also help the British car industry cope with any Brexit-related trade implications. The Automotive Council considers the reshoring drive an ongoing success story. Not only has UK car production increased by 72 percent since the Council was formed …
Encouraging the “reshoring” of parts production has been a key part of this, and a strong manufacturing base helps encourage further foreign investment in the UK. In 2016, the number of British-built vehicles hit a 17-year high and with about 80pc of …

Chemicals Boom While Cars Go Bust

by admin on June 18, 2017

Also, the Reshoring Initiative, a manufacturing advocacy group, has estimated that in 2016 the U.S. added about 27,000 more manufacturing jobs through reshoring by U.S. companies and new investments by foreign manufacturers than it lost through offshoring …
ARLINGTON, Texas—General Motors Inc. is planning to open a new supplier park in the Dallas suburbs to build parts for its sprawling SUV assembly plant in Arlington, Texas. The company said the complex will include two industrial manufacturing plants and …